No Bluetooth Stereo Audio While Playing Video Games. Please Help.

Paleobiologist · Nov 21, 2021

PC Summary:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz

Nvidia 2070 Super 8gb

32gb ram

latest Nvidia driver installed: 496.76.

Windows 11

Issue:

No audio from WH-1000xm4 headphones (or any bluetooth headset) during gameplay and the bluetooth device disappears from Output sound in Windows sound settings during gameplay.

Summary of Issue:

I use Bluetooth headphones to listen to audio on my PC (Sony WH 1000xm4). It functions normally when I surf the web or watching videos and movies and on Zoom as well. However, whenever I initiate any video game from different but widely used services (i.e. Steam, Epic Games, and Ubisoft), my Bluetooth stereo device audio cuts off after a minute or so of initiating the game and either switches to the Hands-Free microphone audio (which is terrible) or the Bluetooth device completely disappears from the Sound Output settings in Windows and doesn't return until I shut off the game and wait a bit. The problem is that I want to use my Bluetooth headphones while playing these games and not have the audio cut off but I am not sure what to do. At first, I believed it was a headset issue but I have connected two different Bluetooth devices and both of these had the exact same issue indicating it may not be the headphones directly. I used to use these headphones for this PC before without any issues and it used to work perfectly while playing games but now it doesn't. Additionally, the Windows troubleshooter could not identify the problem either. I tried disabling the Hands-Free audio in the Sound settings and also uninstalling the device and resetting it, but this didn't work either. This is quite puzzling.

Can anyone help me with this issue or experienced something similar? Thank you for your time and advice.

:)

XBF - Amory

To ensure that the hands-free audio on your bluetooth headset is not used on your Windows 10 PC, especially as you jump from one gaming program to another, you'll want to also disable the hands-free audio microphone under the Recording tab in the Sound Control Panel.

On Windows 10:

Select Start
Type in Sound Settings
Hit Enter
On the far right, under "Related Settings", locate and select Sound Control Panel
Select the Recorcing tab
Locate the bluetooth headset's microphone
Disable it

I also have a bluetooth headset that I prefer to use with my desktop microphone for the audio quality, but I don't like the hands-free audio either. Because the headphones change to the hands-free audio when the microphone enters use, whenever I would switch to Discord, that microphone would get triggered, and it would change the audio over to that mode on the headset even if I had disabled that audio in the Playback tab in Sound Control Panel.

It's the little hiccups.

Hopefully this helps and clarifies, and let me know if this doesn't solve your problem.

Syriel

Component video will work. Otherwise you can get an audio only adapter that will connect to the multi-out port on the Xbox 360 and provide audio out (stereo analog as well as optical digital) while video is carried over HDMI.

Ant_Daddy

The X32 uses an bluetooth device for game audio on the 360, and the talkback cable is for chat.On the xbox one the stereo adapter sends game and chat audio through your talkback cable into your headset.so dont use the X32 wireless accessory and press the
button on the bottom left corner of the stereo adapter repeatedly until you hear a beep and then press the + button untill you hear the beep.That should be max chat volume then press the game audio button a couple of times and try that.

The X32 dont work well with the one but maybe this helps.

Son ALA

So your volume on the 360 while playing a game or watching video is much lower than the volume from items on other inputs like your cable box?

My issue is the other way around, my XBOX volume is much greater than everything else. Have you messed around with the audio settings while on the dashboard?

Go to Console Settings and then Audio, then you can activate the other selections in case you were on basic stereo

Rodrigo Oliver

You could connect your headset to the TV Bluetooth and use it while gaming, it works.

Just output the audio, on the TV Settings to your Bluetooth headset.

No Bluetooth Stereo Audio While Playing Video Games. Please Help.